[PATCH] Improving sftp client performance

[Tobias Ringstrom]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Kevin Steves wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> :The problem is the Nagle algorithm.  Adding TCP_NODELAY to both ssh and
> :sshd makes them fly.  Adding a flag to ssh that turns off Nagle would be
> :easy.  I wonder what the best way is to to turn it off on the server side.
> 
> is the problem that we are not doing >=MSS size sends?

Yes.  The read requests and write responses are very small, typically a
few tens of bytes.  Since we are sending packets over the TCP link, and
latency is important, Nagle should not be used.

/Tobias